Neet results: Punjab boy bags top rank

New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) announced the results of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Neet) for admissions to MBBS and BDS courses on Friday.

Punjab’s Navdeep Singh bagged the top rank with 697 marks out of 720, while Archit Gupta and Manish Mulchandani from Madhya Pradesh were ranked second and third, respectively.

A total of 11,38,890 students appeared for the Neet this year, including 1,522 NRIs and 613 foreigners. It was conducted in 10 languages at 1,921 exam centres across 103 cities.

Of these, 6,11,539 have passed the medical entrance examination, which was held on May 7.

Of these, 2,66,221 were male aspirants while 3,45,313 were female. Qualified students will now be participating in the counselling process for admissions to 65,170 MBBS and 25,730 dental seats. Qualifying marks for admissions in open category is 131 and that for students in the reserved category is 107.

On June 12, the CBSE had set in motion the process for declaring the results of Neet-2017 after the Supreme Court gave a go-ahead to the board.

The school board released the answer keys of the examination on June 15 and candidates were given time until 5 pm on June 16 to challenge them. On June 13, CBSE displayed the OMR answersheets and responses to questions by candidates who appeared in the exam.

The highest number of candidates — 9,13,033 — took the test in English and 1,20,663 students took it in Hindi.

The apex court on May 24 stayed an interim order of the Madras high court, which had restrained the CBSE from publishing the results of Neet-2017. The CBSE had moved the Supreme Court on June 9.